Finland's government resigns after healthcare reform fails

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Finland's government resigned on Friday after ditching plans to reform the ...

Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila announces his government's resignation at a news conference at his official residence, Kesaranta, in Helsinki, Finland March 8, 2019. Lehtikuva/Seppo Samuli via REUTERS

The president approved Prime Minister Juha Sipila’s resignation and asked his government to continue as a care-taker government until a new cabinet has been appointed. Financial constraints are colliding with the healthcare costs imposed by Finland’s fast-ageing population. But cutting those costs is a major political obstacle in a Nordic country that historically has provided an extensive — and expensive — healthcare system.

 

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O Lord, I see what You are doing in other countries Ministers take ownership of their failings & are held accountable. They institute reforms & set targets & if those targets fail, they don’t blame someone else, they take responsibility & exit stage... O Lord, remember Nigeria

It's very confusing to read about how a whole entire government resigns and would seem as if the country has collapsed into chaos, but that does not seem to be what's happening. Strange way to word it, to this American.

bc they listened to a conservative swedish diotic finance minister

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